On 12/22/2015 03:51 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Andrew F. Davis <afd@xxxxxx> wrote:
[Rob]
I agree the generic version is fine (or find who made the first part
;)). What "pisosr" is is not very obvious though. Having 74165 in the
compatible would make it somewhat more obvious it is a standard logic
part.
A quick search shows shift-registers being made from vacuum tubes for
the Colossus! Those might work with this driver if you could match the
voltage to an SPI bus... :)
I agree about the name not being very good, but I'm not sure about
74165 ether as it is also just a single part number.
We can add many compatible strings so it's not an issue.
"ti,74165" works for me as TI invented the 74xx series.
Free advertising for our parts :)
The idea was to
have a non-part number compatible string for any shift-register you
can hook to the SPI line.
Again, one does not exclude the other. I'm happy with a generic
compatible *and* "ti,74165".
That way when we have boards with a sn65x882
or something we wont have to call it a 74165. But I guess that's why
it's a "compatible:" string, and not "is-a:" string.
Compatible ranges from the specific to the more generic
so compatible = "ti,74165", "pisosr"; is just fine. Something
will match if there is a suitable driver. The OS may choose to
provide something part-specific or something more generic.
And so we won't need to have "ti,74165" in the driver itself,
if we just have "pisosr", then dts files can use what ever they
like to correctly identify the part then fall back to pisosr.
compatible = "company,random_numbers_of_exact_part_actually_on_board", "pisosr";
Andrew
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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